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Originally Posted by Brian Maher
Both Tech Valley and Finger Lakes are held at colleges (RPI and RIT, respectively). This year, both schools have the same spring break, which severely impacts venue availability. No one wanted this. Many teams who have traditionally attended TVR and FLR (such as 2791) are upset that now we have to compete with both upstate and downstate teams in order to attend a second regional in NY.
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Yup I know of this detail. Honestly though it may have made sense for the RD's to find another college to host one of the events at. There are so many colleges in upstate NY presumably a few would be willing to host an event. I am no regional planner but to me this seems like it would have been a solution that would make life harder for the RPC's but help the transition to districts by gaining another potential venue as well as benefiting teams. And, FIRST is here for the teams. But I am preaching to the choir here so I am going to stop. Hopefully stuff just goes better next year and hopefully we get into a second regional without a problem being its the first year we have the chance to do so.